KYIV: A newborn baby and two other civilians were killed on Wednesday when Russian air strikes hit a maternity ward and other buildings in Ukraine.
According to emergency services in Ukraine, the Russian missiles hit a building overnight in Vilniansk, part of the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
The officials distributed a video, showing rescue workers trying to free a man trapped waist-deep in the rubble of a two-story health facility building. They said that w woman with a baby and a doctor were inside the building at the time of the air strike.
Emergency workers said that the baby died on the spot while the woman and a doctor had been rescued.
Ukrainian hospitals under Russian attack
Ukrainian hospitals have been hit by Russian strikes several times since Russia started its aggression against the country in February. An attack on Mariupol hospital left three dead in March. Ukraine and its Western allies had strongly condemned the strike; however, it was termed a staged attack by Russia.
Two other civilians were killed in a shelling of a clinic and a residential building in the northeastern Kharkiv region, according to local governor Oleg Syengubov.
He said that Russian jets shelled Kupiansk, damaging a clinic and a nine-storey building and killing two people. The deceased were a 68-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman.
The governor further said on social media that the enemy has once again tried to achieve with murder and terror what it was unable to get for 9 months. –APP/AFP
